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Kumalo visits Gertrude alone, and finds her nearly lifeless. He asks her why she did not write, and she claims she had no money. She says that she was not guilty of the crime for which she was sent to prison, but she helped another woman to get money for her child. Kumalo tells Gertrude that she has shamed him, and he has come to take her away from Johannesburg. Kumalo asks about Absalom, but she says that John's son will know. When Gertrude and Stephen Kumalo return to Mrs. Lithebe's house, he is happy again for the first time in years, for now "the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and the soul restored."